Pothos (Epipremnum aureum), also known as money plant, devil’s ivy, or dragon ivy, is a beautiful indoor hanging plant. Its green and yellow mixed leaves are heart-shaped, making it very attractive. It grows like a vine. It requires very little care and can be easily grown in water. It enhances the beauty of the home and helps purify the air, making it a popular ornamental plant.
Scientific Name: Epipremnum aureum
Some Basic Information about Pothos plant (the hanging plants)
Habit: Perennial, evergreen, climbing or trailing herb, 1–20 m long under natural conditions, often epiphytic, with aerial roots and lush foliage. Commonly grown as an ornamental indoor and outdoor plant
Root: Adventitious roots growing from nodes; aerial roots help the plant attach to surfaces and absorb moisture and nutrients
Stem: Herbaceous, flexible, climbing or creeping, branched, smooth, and filled with watery sap; capable of rooting at nodes
Leaf: Alternate, simple, long-petioled, with entire or irregularly lobed margins; lamina cordate (heart-shaped) to ovate, glossy green with yellow, white, or light-green variegation; leaf venation reticulate and pinnate
Inflorescence: Spadix with a surrounding spathe, typical of the family Araceae; rarely produced in indoor cultivation
Flower: Bracteate, complete, bisexual, and epigynous; borne on a fleshy spadix enclosed by a greenish or pale yellow spathe
Perianth: Minute or absent; replaced functionally by the fleshy spadix and protective spathe
Androecium: Stamens 4–6, attached around the ovary; anthers dithecous (two-celled), dehiscing longitudinally
Gynoecium: Ovary inferior, unilocular; stigma broad; style short; placentation basal or parietal depending on development stage. The fruiting body rarely forms under cultivation
Fruit: Berry, small, fleshy, enclosing one or few seeds; propagation usually vegetative via stem cuttings
Floral Formula: Br ⊕ ⚥ P(4–6) A4–6 G(1̲)
Systematic Position
Division – Angiospermae
Class – Monocotyledonae
Order – Alismatales
Family – Araceae
Genus – Epipremnum
Species – aureum
